The Arizona Cardinals have moved on from the one year of the Steve Wilks era. They hired Kliff Kingsbury as their new head coach.

A lot of things went wrong for the Cardinals under Wilks. The offense was the worst in the league. The defense was not good either, and that came after he changed the defensive scheme.

That didn’t go over well with the front offense.

“He made some big errors,” team president Michael Bidwill said on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM after the team introduced Kingsbury to the media. “Going from a 3-4 to a 4-3, we were the sixth overall defense, and we went backward in a lot of ways. We did not expect that, I did not expect that. I did not expect the change, either.”

As a result, the team will be making a move back to a 3-4 defense, which will impact the defensive coordinator they can hire.

The Cardinals seek a veteran, experienced defensive coordinator, perhaps with head coaching experience, and he has to run a 3-4 defense.

They believe their personnel better fits that defensive scheme, so while it does limit who they will consider, it does give them a very specific direction.